Strengthening cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

During the meeting, Associate Professor Pham Quang Minh reviewed the main collaborations between the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and the KAS Institute in various academic, educational, and cultural fields. In the field of research, the two sides have jointly organized many important international scientific conferences such as "Vietnam's accession to the WTO: Social capital - human resource development" in November 2006, "Models of economic journalism in Vietnam and Germany: the face of economic information in the media" in May 2013, "Managing information sources and providers in the digital age" in March 2014, etc.

According to Associate Professor Pham Quang Minh, these collaborations have shown that the KAS Institute is one of the long-term and reliable partners of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Based on this, Associate Professor Pham Quang Minh continues to propose new collaborations by co-organizing numerous seminars in the political field: the role of Germany in Vietnam's regional cooperation and integration, EU-ASEAN relations in security and integration, the EU's new strategy in Asia, the role of the EU and its member states in relations with ASEAN and Vietnam, the potential application of journalism and media in social governance, etc.

Dr. Wilhelm Hofmeister highly appreciated the above proposals and stated that the KAS Institute wishes to expand cooperation with the University in the aforementioned areas. These will be driving forces to promote relations between the two sides in particular, and between Germany and Vietnam in general, in the context of the 40th anniversary of Vietnam-Germany relations in 2015.